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I think the truth is somewhere in between: yes, things are getting better, but it's happening much more slowly than EV supporters claim. I'm in the UK, in a populous suburb of the second biggest city, and I have literally one fast-charging point in a 20km radius. That's not enough to serve even 5% of drivers here, if we all switched to EVs tomorrow people would start fighting in the streets to get access to it.

I don't doubt we will get there eventually, but they will not be able to stop selling ICE cars by 2035; about 5 years from now there will be an uproar and the deadline will be pushed by at least another decade. The technology is getting better, the prices are getting lower, but infrastructure is nowhere near ready.

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